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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
the face of the earth. It is therefore

impossible to apply the symbol of Revelation

13:11 to any other government but that of the

United States.

But after describing the lamblike appearance

of this symbol, the prophet immediately adds

this, “And he spake as a dragon.” The dragon,

the first link in this chain of prophecy, was a

relentless persecutor of the church of God.

The leopard beast, which follows, was

likewise a persecuting power, grinding out for

1260 years the lives of millions of the

followers of Christ. The third actor in the

scene, the two-horned beast, speaks like the

first, and thus shows himself to be a dragon at

heart; “for out of the abundance of the heart,

the mouth speaketh,” and in the heart, actions

are conceived. This, then, like the others, is to